The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 579: Yu Yan Returns!_1

After the competition, feasts followed one after another on Chong'a Mountain.

Shen Mo was also invited to attend celebrations organized by individuals such as Chen Mengze. Under normal circumstances, Shen Mo wouldn't attend events like this due to his current stature within the sect. However, Chen Mengze, Cao Ren, and Lu Ming were all old friends, so it would be rude to decline their invitation.

Next in line were the duties of the Deacon Hall, which involved building Immortal Mansions for newly-promoted core disciples... 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

However, the property of the Riverside Sect had drastically decreased, and Chong'a Mountain did not have the same spacious area as the old site. Thus, the mansions of the core disciples could not be as magnificent as they once were.

Even the residences of Patriarchs like Shen Mo, Yuan Heming, and Zhou Zhiwei were only comparable to the Guanyun Mansion at the old site after losing the Vacuous Realm.

Of course, for cultivators, these worldly things don't matter a lot. Whether they were magnificent or not was not that important.

As long as it was built in the sect, it was a symbol of status and identity!

Unfortunately, many Spirit Sea Realm Elders could only build their mansions at the periphery, where the Formations and Prohibitions were weak. If an enemy were to attack Chong'a Mountain, they'd be the first to suffer.

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「The road to immortality is long and difficult.」

After the contest for core discipleship, the Riverside Sect resumed its usual rhythm!

Unless there were major incidents, the three Supreme Elders, Shen Mo included, wouldn't micromanage every detail. Most matters were delegated to Sect Master Yuan Qingshi and other high-ranking members of the sect.

In addition to enhancing his cultivation level, studying magic and martial arts, Alchemy and Forging, Shen Mo spent the rest of his time guiding Qian Xiaofeng in cultivation.

After the drastic changes in the world, and the loss of her father and elder brother, Qian Xiaofeng's efforts in cultivation became increasingly intense, possibly fueled by a desire for revenge against the Soaring Serpent and Bizarre Dragon one day!

Among the disciples of the Riverside Sect, there were quite a few people with the same idea as Qian Xiaofeng...

This was not a bad thing.

As long as they didn't follow Chen Mengze's footsteps, allowing such obsessions to become their Heart Demons, this would motivate them to cultivate more diligently to a certain extent!

Besides, Shen Mo paid much attention to Chen Mengze.

After winning the position of top core disciple, she was either tirelessly cultivating to increase her cultivation level or undertaking sect tasks to gain experience.

Whenever she left Chong'a Mountain, Shen Mo would lend her a Class IV Demon Soul General imbued with a Soul Splitting Rune to help her earn more Sect Merit.

If he could, Shen Mo would not hesitate to lend her the Soul Refining Flag.

However, the flag had a deep connection with his soul, so lending it to others would render it powerless. Furthermore, with her current power, Chen Mengze couldn't withstand the backlash power of this evil flag, even if Shen Mo reformed the sequence of the Demon Soul Generals inside it.

However, having a Class IV Demon Soul General was already more than enough.

Even Hall Masters and Peak Masters would not have such a high-ranking entity to protect them when they go outside to carry out tasks.

With the assistance of the Class IV Demon Soul General, Chen Mengze earned even more Sect Merit.

In a few years, she would outperform other Hall Masters. By that time, Shen Mo's efforts to promote her would face less resistance.

Time flowed day by day.

One day, when Shen Mo had just finished cultivation, the maid disciple Lu Taorui, who had reached the Qi Gathering Realm, activated the Prohibition at the door.

"Master Shen, Patriarchs Yuan and Zhou invite you to Longevity Hall. They said there's an important matter to discuss."

Not long after Zhao Lingyin moved to GuanYun Mansion, she realized that Lu Taorui had a considerable talent in the Alchemy Path. After getting approval from Shen Mo and Wu Gong, she took Lu Taorui as her Registered Disciple and began training her.

If Lu Taorui makes good progress in the Alchemy Path in the future, becoming a Direct Disciple of Zhao Lingyin would not be impossible.

Upon receiving the message from Lu Taorui, Shen Mo deactivated the Prohibitions inside and outside the door and invited Lu Taorui inside: "Do you know what the matter is?"

"I do not know," the disciple replied.

"Elder Huang brought the news. I was cultivating earlier, and Master had gone to the Patriarch's, so I didn't dare to activate the mansion Formation to let him in without authorization."

"At present, Elder Huang is still waiting outside the mansion," Lu Taorui hurriedly replied.

Shen Mo slightly nodded, let her retreat to cultivate, and then walked towards the outside of the mansion!

However, he couldn't help but be curious. There were no important matters in the sect recently, so why had Patriarchs Yuan and Zhou summoned him to discuss matters so mysteriously?

As expected, Elder Huang Changqing, an Elder of the peak, didn't know the detailed inside story.

Shen Mo didn't ask more; he turned into a golden rainbow, flying towards Longevity Hall.

There were no disciples waiting outside Longevity Hall. Shen Mo took out his Identity Token, closing the Prohibition of the hall with a seal, and then he pushed open the door and entered.

"Patriarch Shen!"

In the hall, Sect Master Yuan Qingshi, Rising Sun Peak Master Jin Chinian, Affairs Hall Master Jiang Lingfeng, core disciple Chen Mengze and others were all there. When they saw Shen Mo's arrival, they all saluted him promptly.

The two Supreme Elders, Yuan Heming and Zhou Zhiwei, were also on the stage, nodding to Shen Mo in acknowledgment.

What interested Shen Mo the most was the figure standing in the center of the hall. He was tightly wrapped in a black robe, emanating bursts of eerie ghostliness.

Soul Ghost?

An expression of surprise appeared on Shen Mo's face.

He had slain and refined a large number of Soul Ghosts in the Ghost Nation Ruins; he couldn't be more familiar with such beings.

However, after examining him with his five senses and Divine Sense, the soul's aura gave Shen Mo a somewhat familiar feeling!

As his thoughts flowed, the surprise on Shen Mo's face deepened even more.

Yu Yan?

Upon hearing the name, the figure removed the hood of his robe, turned around, and gave him a bitter smile. "It's me."

This person was none other than Yu Yan, the Hall Master of Immortal Welcoming Hall, who had been lost for so long...

However, now his Fire Spirit Body was destroyed, only a soul remained, and he had become a being similar to a Soul Ghost.

"How did you end up like this? What happened to your Master, Yuan Jing?" Shen Mo anxiously asked.

"This incident...it's a long story!"

There was a deep gloom in Yu Yan's eyes. Because he had previously stated everything in detail to the people in the hall, he used his Divine Sense to recount his experiences in full detail to Shen Mo.

When the world underwent drastic changes, Yu Yan and his Master, Yuan Jing, the Bright Moon Peak Master, went to investigate the abnormality in the Southern Area.

They didn't find anything unusual. So they thought of using the Teleportation Array within Five Poisons City to return to their sect.

By a coincidence, just after they stepped into the Teleportation Array, all the message transmitting methods and the Teleportation Array in the Red Flame Zone stopped working in an instant. Unfortunately, they were not aware of it.

So, the two were teleported to an unknown location by the array.

The place where they appeared was full of tiny spatial rifts and chaotic Space-Time, a very dangerous location.

As soon as they appeared, Yuan Jing was dragged into chaotic time and aged by fifty or sixty years in an instant; while Yu Yan's Dao Body was torn apart by the spatial rifts.

If it hadn't been for Yuan Jing's sacrifice, Yu Yan might not even have been able to escape with his soul!

In this perilous place, various fragments of magic treasures and withered limbs were scattered all around. Every now and then, a cultivator or two would fall from the sky, only to die either by being torn apart by the rifts or by exhausting their Lifespan.

They escaped the turbulent flow of Space-Time after exhausting all their methods, only to find out that they were in the Western Sea of the Heaven Patrolling Zone, on the easternmost edge of the Immortal Burial Sea.